Went to purchase NPC. Got error messge. Then I tried again and got error message. Went bacl to position and 18K was deducted for the merchhant purchase but no NPCS were given to me. I only wanted one, but I paid for two somehow and got ZERO!!

I bought one and my credits and inventory transactions show this. But no NPC was made over to me. I tried again a day later and was able to purchase it.

I did lose credits on the first purchase.

Might I suggest that you go to 'Position', then to 'Travel'. In there you will find a tab called 'Party'. Change your preference so people CAN join your party. This seemed to work for me, but it was already too late.

The bug has been reported and fixed, when the servers are next synched it'll be working so don't buy NPC's again until then. To obtain compensation add a note to one of the existing bugs, such as bug ID 0007365 , do not open a new bug for it.